Button



N. DE BEAUMONT. BUTTON.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 10, I920.

. 1 359 93 Patented Nov. 16,1920.

A TTORNE Y other forms might be readily PATEL NT OEFIQE.

NORMAN 1m BEAUMONT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BUTTON.

Application filed. July 10, 1920.

o all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NORMAN DE BEAU- MONT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buttons, of which the following is a specification. v

This invention relates particularly to the means employed for'attaching a button to a garment or other supporting article, the main object being to provide flexible connections of substantial character so that the button may readily tilt in respect to the supporting article to facilitate buttoning and unbuttoning, and the button and its attaching means may be easily and inexpensively manufactured and attached by single machine or hand operation.

7 Among the various other objects of my invention are to reduce liability of tearing the goods to which the button may be se cured and to reduce the extent to which the button projects from the surface when unbuttoned.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated certain embodiments of my invention but it will, of course, be obvious that designed within the scope of my invention asdefined in the appended claims.

- depending upon In these drawings:

Figure 1 is a cent 'al longitudinal section through one form which my invention may assume and a portion of an article to which the button may be attached, the parts being shown in an enlarged scale and the supporting article of possibly exaggerated thickness.

Figs. 2 and 3 show similar sections through other forms.

In the form shown in Fig. 1 there is provided a button 10 which may be of metal, bone, hard rubber, or other material or com position and of any desired shape or size the character of the garment or other supporting article to which it is to be attached. The body portion of the button has a shank 11 preferably of metal and terminating in an enlarged head 12 presenting a curved bearing surface and preferably in the form of a ball or sphere. The shank 11 may be secured rigidly to the body portion of the button or if the button be of suitable character, as for instance metal, the

Specification of Letters Eatent.

firmly gripped Patented Nov. 16, 1920.

Serial No. 395,299.

stud be formed integral with the body of the button. The shank is shown as extending through a central aperture and as having its upper or outer end 13 deformed, flattened or riveted over to prevent withdrawal.

The means for connecting the shank to a supporting article of sheet form, such for instance as the article A, is shown including two telescoping members 15 and 16. The member 15 projects through the supporting article 14' and has a base flange 17 of a size depending upon the c laracter of the article 1stand limiting the outward movement of the member 15. The member 16 has a similar base flange 18 and is slightly larger than the member 15 so as to telescope thereon. The members 15 and 16 fit together friction tight so that when forced together by a suitable machine or hand tool, the garment or other supporting article M will be between the two flanges 17 and 18. The tubular 15 has an internal diameter which is preferably slightly larger than the outside diameter of the head 12, while the upper or outer end of the tubular member 16 is approximately hemispherical with a central aperture slightly larger than the shank 11 but smaller than the head 12. The length of the shank 11 may be such that the distance between the head 12 and the lower side of the button 10 is only slightly greater than the thickness of the material constituting the socket forming the upper end of thememher 16. This is not essential as the shank 11 may be of materially greater length so that it may telescope into member 15 to a limited extent when unbuttoned.

In assembling, the shank 11 is preferably extended through the member 16 to bring the ball and socket in proper cooperative relationship and the shank is then extended through the central aperture of the button and the head 13 is formed to prevent withdrawal of the shank. The parts 10, 11 and 16 are permanently connected. When the button is to be secured to a garment or other supporting article, the member 15 is projected through an aperture in the article and the members 15 and 16 forced together. Although in some cases i may be desirable to slightly deform these members after the telescoping operation is completed so as to prevent their separation, I preferably rely portion of the member upon a tight friction fit so that in case there is excessivestrain on the button the members l5 and 16 will separate before the member 15 tears out of the supporting article. The upper end of the member 15 may be made of thinner or more easily deformed material than the socket portion of the member 16, and the member 15 may be mace of such length that upon telescoping the end of the member 15 will be contracted above the head 12 and thus form a lining for the socket and transmit the strain of any pull on the button, directly to the member 15 and its base flange 17. It will be noted that the operation of attaching the button to the supporting article is a very simple one, easily accomplished by machine or hand pull operation or in emergency might be forced by the flanges 17 and 18 toward each other merely by hand. As the pull on the button is not ordinarily in a direction at right angles to the plane of the supporting surface, this pull will ordinarily tend to tilt the member 16 rather than pull it directly off from the member 15 and thus the friction fit of the two members will be suflicient to resist any ordinary strain. The button may freely tilt in any direction to facilitate buttoning or unbuttoning, but the connecting means is such that there is little or no liability of wearing out or getting out of order. Obviously the tubular member 15 may be made somewhat shorter than as shown in Fig. 1

so that there is no contracting of the upper end when the parts are connected.

In Fig. 2 I have shown another form in which the same button and shank with its ball end 12 are employed. The tubular tubular member 15 has its base flange 18 spun or bent around a flange at the end of the member 15 so as to nect these parts. A washer 19 is employed instead of the flange 17 and in assembling the parts the member 15 is projected through the material and one end is spun :which the shank instead of telescoping with the permanently con or forced over to nently connecting sheet 14.

I11 Fig. 3 I have shown a further form in 1 11 is somewhat longer and the member 16 is formed flat instead of hemispherical as the shank lies within the member 15 and the latter is constructed and connected the same as in the form shown in Fig. 2.

do not wish to be limited to any particular character of material for the sheet 14 as it may be of comparatively heavy fabric, or several layers of fabric, or may be leather, or any other similar sheet material.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. I11 combination a pair of members adapted .to telescope and having base flanges for gripping a supporting article therebetween, one ofsaid members terminating in a socket at its outer end, and a button having a shank terminating in a ball within said socket.

' 2. In combination, a pair of tubular members adapted to telescope and having base anges for gripping a supporting article therebetween, the outer of said tubular members terminating in a socket at one end, and a button having a shank terminating in a ball within said socket;

3. In combination, a pairof tubular members adapted to telescope and having base flanges for gripping a supporting article therebetween, the outer of said tubular members terminating in a socket at one end, and a button having a shank terminating in a ball within said socket, said tubular members fitting friction tight and adapted to in Fig. 2. In this form I separate upon a strain less than that required to tear said supporting article.

Signed at New York city in the county of New York and State of New York this ninth day of July A. D. 1920.

NORMAN on BEAUMONT. 

